.au

Registration

To register a .au domainname a local presence is required.
The owner, administrative and technical contact must match the Australian Presence Requirements, this can be validated/checked through an ABN checker like http://abr.business.gov.au/.

If the company does not have an address in Australia but has an Australian Trademark it is possible to register domains without any problem.

Registration can be started via the API.
if you do not use the API, please send us an email with
- the domainname
- the handles (with CA adress details)
- the nameservers

and the additional parameters we need to forward to the registry:

EligibilityTypeRelationship:
This indicates the relationship between the Eligibility Type (e.g. business name#) and domain name. Specify the Policy reference number as appropriate from the values below.

Possible values:

'1' (2LD Domain name is an exact match, an acronym or abbreviation of the company or trading name, organisation or association name, or trademark)
'2' (2LD Domain Name is closely and substantially connected to the organisation or activities undertaken by the organisation.)

Transfer

A transfer can be started using an authcode which can be retrieved from the current registrar.
Once the transfer has been started the domain owner will get an approval mail which need to be approved within 30 days.

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Transfer characteristics

Transfer authorization code required

yes

Method of confirmation

authcode

Registration period after transfer

unchanged

Transfer time

max 30 days

Advanced and simple transfers available

Contact our Sales department to check if easy transfer of 100 or more .au domains is available.

Trade (owner change)

A change of ownership is not supported.

Update

Delete

To cancel a .au you will have to disable the autorenew. It is not possible to explicitly delete a .au domainname during the current active period.

Restore (reactivation)

A domain can be restored using a restore domain command at the supplier. The domain can be renewed for 30 days after expiring.